غبط
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaغِبْطَةٌ ذ A good state or condition; (S, L, Msb, K;) a state of happiness; (L, K;) and of enjoyment, or wellbeing; (L;) as also ↓ غَبْطٌ, in the saying, اَللّٰهُمَّ غَبْطًا لَا هَبْطًا, meaning, O God, we ask of Thee a good state or condition [&c.], (S, K,) and we put our trust in Thee for preservation that we may not be brought down from our state, (S, TA,) or that we may not be abased and humbled: (TA:) or place us in a station for which we may be regarded [ with unenvious emulation, i. e.,] with a wish to be in the like condition without its being desired that it should pass away from us, (K, * TA,) and remove from us the stations of abasement and humiliation: (TA:) or [we ask of Thee] exaltation, not humiliation; and increase of thy bounty, not declension nor diminution. (TA.) [See also 1, second sentence.]
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